Chinese symbol for “slide”
滑动
huá dòng
Traditional: 滑動
to slide; sliding movement
The closest CC-CEDICT match for slide is 滑动 (huá dòng), defined as: to slide; sliding movement.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “slide”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 滑行 | huá xíng | to slide; to coast |
| 滑 | huá | to slip; to slide; slippery; smooth |
| 幻灯片 (幻燈片) | huàn dēng piàn | (computing) presentation slide; (photography) slide |
| 推移 | tuī yí | (of time) to elapse; to pass; (of a situation) to develop; to evolve |
| 打滑 | dǎ huá | to skid; to slip |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 滑动.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 下滑 | xià huá | to slide down (a slope etc); (fig.) to decline |
| 滑雪 | huá xuě | to ski; skiing |
| 滑稽 | huá jī | comical; funny; amusing (old pr. [gu3 ji1]); huaji, a form of comedy performance popular in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang |
| 光滑 | guāng huá | smooth |
| 滑坡 | huá pō | rockslide; landslip |
| 活动 (活動) | huó dòng | to exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc) |
| 运动 (運動) | yùn dòng | to move; to exercise |
| 行动 (行動) | xíng dòng | operation; action |
See also: Japanese symbol for “slide”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.